those living after midnight, the music's emotional impetus remains undisturbed, if As One Aflame be admitted as evidence. The Projekt label has been long dedicated ...
those living after midnight, the music's emotional impetus remains undisturbed, if As One Aflame be admitted as evidence. The Projekt label has been long dedicated to ethereal sounds, releasing albums that combine the placid spirituality of New Age with the vampiric night music of goth since 1986. Label founder and Black Tape "electronics" guru Sam Rosenthal works with a revolving cast (a bit like Ivo Watts-Russell's work at 4AD with This Mortal Coil but with increased involvement). The melancholy streak permeates all 71 minutes. Longing and desire are brought to obsessive degrees (lyric inspiration includes Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs and Baudelaire's "Windows," for starters); the music echoes these sentiments. Excessive swaths of reverb heighten the otherworldly effect for the choirlike vocal ensemble and stretch the flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and harmonium notes to infinity. Piano chords signal doom. The perfect soundtrack for those trapped in their room staring at candles. --Rob O'Connor
those living after midnight, the music's emotional impetus remains undisturbed, if As One Aflame be admitted as evidence. The Projekt label has been long dedicated to ethereal sounds, releasing albums that combine the placid spirituality of New Age with the vampiric night music of goth since 1986. Label founder and Black Tape "electronics" guru Sam Rosenthal works with a revolving cast (a bit like Ivo Watts-Russell's work at 4AD with This Mortal Coil but with increased involvement). The melancholy streak permeates all 71 minutes. Longing and desire are brought to obsessive degrees (lyric inspiration includes Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs and Baudelaire's "Windows," for starters); the music echoes these sentiments. Excessive swaths of reverb heighten the otherworldly effect for the choirlike vocal ensemble and stretch the flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and harmonium notes to infinity. Piano chords signal doom. The perfect soundtrack for those trapped in their room staring at candles. --Rob O'Connor
Advantages: Humourous lyrics, Pleasing melodies, Disadvantages: Can be a little difficult to get
...County singer, Bobby Bare has released a surprising sometimes stunning new record, "The Moon Was Blue," co-produced by his son Bobby Bare Jr, twenty years after his last album. This was the gist of a recent newspaper article that caught my eye. Why?
Well because way back in the 1970s, as a young babysitter, I was introduced to the music of Bobby Bare in particular his album, "Lullabys, Legends and Lies". On one of the tracks, a shy 5 year old Bobby Bare Jr duetted with his father to sing in a quivering voice "Daddy What If". The song was touching and thought-provoking. I loved it.
So after reading the article, I dusted off the CD, and listened once more to the slow laid-back baritone as he sang to me "some tales about murder and blueberry pies, and heroes and hells and bottomless wells, and lullabies, legends and lies".
Bobby Bare...
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One Screaming Pixie Review ofFrankBlackFrancis (1986 Acoustic Demos/2003 Re-Workings) - Frank Blackby
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Advantages: A collision of two extremes of the Pixies Disadvantages: Potentially daunting for a newcomer
...In 1987, The Pixies were about to go into the Fort Apache studio in Boston to record their first record - "Come on Pilgrim". Front man Charles Thompson (aka Black Francis, aka Frank Black) was asked to run through the songs for the forthcoming session on a tape recorder.
The first CD of this album is that tape. The second is a reworking of various numbers from the rest of the catalogue produced by Two Pale Boys.
CD 1 is like nothing you have heard before. The familiar classics have been laidbare, take away the solid rythm section and Joey Santiago's screaming guitar and you are left with the striking beauty of the original songs in their pure state. Charles' powerful, striking voice is able to stand on it's own and even manages to sound fragile against the workings of the acoustic guitar.
The acoustic quality isn't great - after all...
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Advantages: Tender, swirling scrumminess Disadvantages: The end
...of crusty, cider-addled pals. So mesmerised was this small audience that they soon conspired a cunning plan to short-circuit Kathryn's resolute reluctance to take to the stage and set her firmly on the path to stardom.
"We think you're being selfish," they announced one evening, "so we've booked a gig for you."
Gulp.
Her friends' instincts were, of course, bloody spot on. She won over the public within moments of opening her gob and, much to her delight, her satchelful of hastily prepared demo tapes, each with its own lovingly hand-painted inlay card sold like, erm... hot toasted cinnamon & raisin bagels. Word spread and a pioneer of the new acoustic movement was born.
Kathryn's first CD "Dog Leap Stairs", recorded for a reputed £80 and released on her own label "Caw" in 1999, earned her yet more acclaim along with the somewhat unfair...
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